Posted on 07/13/2005 9:06:03 AM PDT by areafiftyone
I say give Karl Rove (search) a medal, even if Bush has to fire him.
Why? Because Valerie Plame (search) should have been outed by somebody. And if nobody else had the cojones to do it, I'm glad Rove did — if he did do it, and he still says he didn't.
Why should she have been outed? Well despite her husband's repeated denials, even in the face of a pile of evidence and conclusions from a Senate investigation, it appears all evidence points to Joe Wilson's wife, spy Valerie Plame, as the one who recommended him for the job of going to Niger to discover is Saddam was trying to buy nuke bomb materials.
Why is this important? Because Wilson was opposed to the war in Iraq, opposed to Bush policy, and pointedly and loudly said so.
Consequently, it was of some interest how he got chosen for this sensitive job which people at the time might have thought would be a fulcrum point for a decision about the war.
You wouldn't send a peacenik to see if we should go to war, if we need to go to war, now would you? Well, turns out the wife did it.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Before being exposed as a covert CIA agent by Aldridge Ames in 1994, Valerie Plame was a behind the Iron Curtain Spook. Langley extracted her and made her a Desk Jockey. This can turn an action craving person into a "disgruntled employee". The Wilsons wanted to live the life of a Washington Power Couple.
Then why the investigation?
Be careful they may trace the call ;-)
I would love it. A Senator with guts! Haven't seen one of those in years!
That's too funny. Maybe your wife is a spy. Better not publicize her name or Chuck Schumer will call for your head.
And more importantly if the reporter or Time magazine knew that Karl Rove did something wrong he would have outed him to the public very quickly and long time ago when it may have really mattered during the 2004 election campaign.
I heartily concur -- or at least rerun it overnight. O'Reilly's on at 8:00, 11:00 and again at 3:00 a.m. -- even when O'Reilly's at his best, 3 times a night seems overmuch!
They should put Gibson in Greta's slot and put her on after I go to bed.
---- The vastly different media treatment of the Berger and Plame cases should be held up as Exhibit "A" in any future discussions of media bias. It is appalling. If Condi Rice had done what Berger did, it would have been the next Watergate, books would have been written about it, and the archival clerk who discovered the theft would have been Time's Man of the Year. ---
I noted the other day that in the report they stated that Berger had only taken "copies" and that the orginal documents were still in the archive.
What they did not say... and I believe it was intentional... is that the copies he stole (and intentionally destroyed) were hand-notated by Bill Clinton and there are no copies of the notes that were made.
What really bothers me is that the Bush administration is letting Berger off on this matter. Why? Why is it that Bush is letting a felon walk away with a slap on the wrist?
Is he worried about the reputation of the govt? If so, how could it be any worse than what is being done to Rove?
---- The vastly different media treatment of the Berger and Plame cases should be held up as Exhibit "A" in any future discussions of media bias. It is appalling. If Condi Rice had done what Berger did, it would have been the next Watergate, books would have been written about it, and the archival clerk who discovered the theft would have been Time's Man of the Year. ---
I noted the other day that in the report they stated that Berger had only taken "copies" and that the orginal documents were still in the archive.
What they did not say... and I believe it was intentional... is that the copies he stole (and intentionally destroyed) were hand-notated by Bill Clinton and there are no copies of the notes that were made.
What really bothers me is that the Bush administration is letting Berger off on this matter. Why? Why is it that Bush is letting a felon walk away with a slap on the wrist?
Is he worried about the reputation of the govt? If so, how could it be any worse than what is being done to Rove?
I agree with you.
If she is not a secret agent, why all the fuss with the media? Everything seemed to be based on the fact that she was working as an agent when, in fact, she is not. I saw somewhere that she was an office secretary for the CIA. Is that true?
I am more concerned with the convergence of events that indicates that the situation was manipulated to force a dismantling of one of our cover organizations that monitors Middle East oil businesses.
I suspect something deeper is at work here, and perhaps the "fervor" of the prosecution in this is trying to smoke out the missing link to the conspiracy that may be linked directly to ME terror, Oil for Food scandals, and enemies of the country.
....and he is a Texan...to boot!
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